Binding Energy per Nucelon and stability

[Rolling]

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Can someone please explain the atom/nucleus with the HIGHEST binding energy per nucleon is going to be the MOST stable?

I figured more energy meant...less stable, perhaps that's just my organic chemistry talking.

Is it because it means that PER nucleon there is a GREATER binding energy, meaning that it can more easily more than nucleus together based on an atom with a LESSER binding energy per nucleon?

Probably just answered my own question, but I want feedback.

 

[wanderer]

more energy required to break the bond = more stable